Editing Beulaville, North Carolina (section)

==Education==
[[File:Former Beulaville High School.jpg|thumb|Former Beulaville High School, Currently Town Hall]]

In 1839, the county passed a tax for the creation of a public school system. Several decades later (sometime around 1870) the first public school in what would become Beulaville was constructed. The facility - which was no more than a small wood cabin - employed only one teacher. By 1901, however, four teachers were working out of the schoolhouse.<ref name="freefeast userpages">[http://www.freefeast.com/userpages/Beulaville1.shtml "Beulaville, North Carolina: A History"]. Retrieved November 19, 2013.</ref> In 1906, property was purchased for a new school. A new two-story wooden building was erected and first used in the school year of 1917–1918; the enrollment for that year was nearly 200. Three additions – the auditorium, gym, and band building – were added in 1923, and additional tracts of land were purchased for the school between 1933 and 1950. On November 6, 1945, the school's main building burned to the ground. Only the John Hargett Gymnasium and auditorium were spared. School continued in these buildings and the teacherage located next door until the fall of 1947, when the elementary school building was rebuilt and a new high school building had been constructed. [[Potters Hill, North Carolina|Potter's Hill]] Elementary merged with Beulaville in 1960, and [[desegregation|integration]] was implemented shortly after.

Beulaville is home to one elementary/middle school (Beulaville Elementary) and one secondary school (East Duplin High School). The mascot for both schools, as well as nearby B. F. Grady, is the panther, referring to the [[North American cougar|eastern cougar]] which once roamed the swamps and forests of eastern North Carolina. East Duplin High School was built in 1963 and consolidates the elementary schools of Beulaville, B. F. Grady, and Chinquapin.